US Mayors from 728 cities have signed a green protocol for municipalities. The plan is an attempt to eliminate the carbon footprint of these cities by aggressively pushing green standards on new and existing buildings. Interestingly, this move is in concert with congressional grants that are just coming under consideration in the house. These grants would allocate $2 billion in "green jobs" training, to teach under skilled workers how to retrofit existing buildings to promote environmental sustainability. This move by US mayors does not come as a complete surprise, in the latest US Conference of Mayors several green building resolutions were adopted, and mayors of many major US cities have been cited as saying that greening their cities was highly important on their agenda's.
Check out the full article in the LA Times Here
Also, NYTimes wrote a nice piece about it Here
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